A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Human Skull, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE
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Description
Skeletal figures were frequently depicted in Moche art. They represented the "living dead" who appeared in various ritual scenes as living people.
Height: 22.5 cm
For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 65, p. 94 ( https://issuu.com/hammersite/docs/offerings_for_the_afterlife?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ)
Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Maiman between 2000-2008. Estate of Yossef Maiman.
Literature: Makowski, Krzystof, Rosenzweif, Alfredo, Diaz Jimenes, Maria Jesus, Offerings for the Afterlife - Peruvian Pottery from the Maiman Collection, Kal Press LTD, Israel, 2006., p. 94
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